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We turn companies into desired brands through strategy.

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A design and strategy bureau born in Minas Gerais, Brazil, that creates brands the market recognizes, respects and seeks out.

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What we do

We design perception. Every signal a company sends, from the label to the website, from the fleet to the sales proposal, is read by the customer in seconds and judged for years. We combine semiotics, neuroscience and art direction so these signals work together and put your brand ahead before the first meeting.

Our capabilities

Branding & Identity

From positioning to name, from symbol to brand guidelines, we build complete brands with Naming, Visual identity, Packaging and Rebranding for companies that want to be remembered.

Brand Strategy

Strategy is the design of how a company presents itself to the world. With clear Positioning and market insight, every touchpoint starts working in favor of the sale.

Campaign & Imagery

Advertising photography, Video, Product 3D and cross-media campaigns with AI-enhanced imagery. The brand gains presence where the customer decides.

Digital & Sales

Websites, E-commerce, sales presentations and catalogs that turn interest into contact. Tools the sales team uses with pride.

Artificial intelligence

Everyone got the same tool. Few people know what to ask of it.

In less than three years, artificial intelligence put image, text and video generators in the pocket of every company. The effect is in every feed: technically clean pieces, visually similar and forgotten in the same second. AI delivers at scale whatever command it receives. A shallow command produces sameness in high resolution.

At Play8, AI works under direction. Twenty-five years of repertoire decide what to ask for, critical judgment decides what to discard and strategy decides what goes out into the world. Technology speeds up studies, multiplies directions and enhances images. Market insight, intent and taste stay in the hands of those accountable for the result.

Repertoire

Art, semiotics, behavior and 25 years of real brands. That is what turns a prompt into a concept and a pretty image into an image that sells.

Critical judgment

The machine offers a thousand options a minute. The value lies in recognizing the generic ones, discarding them without mercy and defending the one that has personality.

Strategy

Every piece is born from a business goal and is accountable to it: recall, preference, sales. That is how the speed of AI becomes a competitive advantage.

Your competitors already use artificial intelligence. The advantage goes to those who use it with judgment.

Advertising photography

The right light sells before the price.

Photography is the first proof of quality a customer receives. Art direction, designed lighting and precise post-production turn product into desire and team into authority. We shoot in the studio or on location, with a finish ready for catalogs, e-commerce, billboards and social media.

Still & productCorporate portraitsFoodFashionEvents and conventionsLifestyleAI post-production

A dive into the heart of the studio: numbers that reflect dedication, creativity and the constant pursuit of excellence.

25+
Years in the market
4
Countries served in Europe
3.1×
Revenue multiplied in a real case
Banco InterPetrobrasChevroletHellmann'sSicoob
Results3.1×

Well-run communication shows up in the bank account. See what two years of integrated work did for a Play8 client.

R$ 800K

That was the monthly revenue of a compounding pharmacy in Brazil's Triângulo Mineiro region when we started handling its communication.

Real case · Compounding pharmacy, Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil
R$ 2.5M

That was the monthly revenue two years later, with strategy, campaigns, new labels, a website with e-commerce, fleet, storefront and internal marketing under a single direction.

Real case · Compounding pharmacy, Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil
3.1×

Monthly revenue multiplied. The company already had a strong product and top-level relationships with physicians. The market just needed to see it.

Real case · Compounding pharmacy, Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil
+212%

Growth in two years, with regional leadership, brand presence and established authority among physicians and prescribers.

Real case · Compounding pharmacy, Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil
Lean

A modest production budget. With structured investment and freedom to execute, the ceiling rises even higher.

Real case · Compounding pharmacy, Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil

Market strength

Big-agency tools, operated with bureau discipline.

Many studios work with half a dozen apps and improvise the rest. Play8 runs the full ecosystem: nearly all of Adobe Creative Cloud, the most advanced artificial intelligence models on the market, licensed image libraries and the media platforms that drive sales.

For the client, this means technically flawless files, images with clear provenance, shorter timelines and campaigns measured by real data.

Adobe Creative Cloud

Complete professional suite for images, vector, editorial, 3D and video.

  • 01PhotoshopImaging and post-production
  • 02IllustratorVector and identity
  • 03InDesignEditorial and catalogs
  • 04Dimension3D scenes and mockups
  • 05Premiere ProVideo editing
  • 06LightroomPhoto editing
  • 07FireflyCommercially safe generative AI
  • 08Adobe StockLicensed image library
  • 09Adobe FontsLicensed type library

Artificial intelligence

Cutting-edge models under creative direction, from concept to final image.

  • 10ClaudeStrategy, copy and research
  • 11ChatGPTIdeation and content
  • 12MidjourneyGenerative art direction
  • 13Nano BananaAI editing and compositing
  • 14Magnific AIHigh-resolution upscaling and detail

Design, product and management

Interfaces, prototypes and projects organized with transparency.

  • 15FigmaUI, prototypes and design systems
  • 16NotionProject management and documentation

Image libraries and assets

Licensed collections for productions with legal certainty.

  • 17EnvatoAssets, templates and music
  • 18ShutterstockImages, video and music

Performance and presence

Paid media and local presence measured by results.

  • 19Google AdsSearch, display and YouTube
  • 20Meta AdsInstagram and Facebook
  • 21Google Business ProfileLocal presence and reviews

Showcase

Work that is already out in the world

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